People argue about Homer as if everyone had read the same Iliad and Odyssey
RachelVT42 · x · 2026-07-21
- The post argues that people casually treat whatever version of Homer they know as the one true canon.
- It notes that very few people have actually read the Iliad and Odyssey closely, and even fewer have compared different translations.
- The broader point is that debates about “what Homer really said” are often debates about which text, edition, or translation someone happened to encounter first.
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